I dunno but i have a mp3 player that is full for the longest time , it has 4 bars , suddenly i look down and it has 1 bar . Some displays are top heavy , they wont really move till they are almost dead . Same with my cell phone. It will go from full to 1 bar when i put on camera mode just by flicking it .thop said:Yeah probably with a dev model and some brick size battery attachedmarconelly! said:Or maybe the battery meter was fixed at threee bars
Official PSP Thread
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The battery life discussion/speculation is useless at this moment. When it comes to battery life (and I am not only talking about PSP's), I never trust any spec sheets. It all comes down to having finalised, retail hardware and real-life usage experience ... then it's getting interesting.
I guess they're taking their changed stance on MP3 literally. Check out what just recently got added to the spec sheet:
Is that worth a "huzzah"?
marconelly!
Veteran
I have heard that complaint before, but it has never happened with any of the two Sony device I have (those being T616 cellphone and T1 photo camera) Battery meter distribuition on both has been very linear and very predictable (meaning useful and infrmative, of course)
legendCNCD
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A little off topic from previous discussions but..
http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/vdo/110hb.wmv
The screen seems to be very bright!!
A little off topic from previous discussions but..
http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/vdo/110hb.wmv
The screen seems to be very bright!!
Also with my friend's MD player and my own rather ancient portable CD player--if that means anything.marconelly! said:
I agree with ChryZ: we're not going to have anything to go by until retail models are available. (So we'll probably get some extensive reports the moment NDA's drop for reviewers.)
thop said:Yeah probably with a dev model and some brick size battery attached
Seriously. Nintendo is not really talking about the games coming out for the DS (no marketing). There has GOT to be some major problems with them.
Yes, comparatively speaking, but screen resolution is fairly low, so overall it isn't a problem - particulary since the device is designed to handle it.
Well I'll certainly say it's nothing to brag about...Ty said:Seriously. Nintendo is not really talking about the games coming out for the DS (no marketing). There has GOT to be some major problems with them.thop said:Yeah probably with a dev model and some brick size battery attached
...else they'd be bragging.
(I'm talking about the PSP here, before anyone gets their panties in a bunch.)It's hard to measure battery capacity, batteries aren't like a milk bottle where you pour out some and can see how much is left. The battery indicator has to make sort of educated guesses knowing the chemical properties of the battery and the tension over the two poles, but modern batteries don't lose much tension even though they start to go flat unless high demands are put on them. That's why you'll see the indicator plummet when you turn on the camera. It probably draws more than 10x more power than your phone does when it just sits there on standby.
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Guden Oden said:
Does "tension" = "electrochemical potential"? Is that a swedish term?
You get very tense when you think your device is about to run out of power.
I wouldn't say "quite a bit"--it seems to be more of a trade-off:
PSP dimensions are 74mm by 170mm by 24mm.
DS (when folded) is 85mm by 149mm by 29mm.
(Yes, I'm rounding to the nearest mm.)
PSP is longer, and the DS is wider and thicker. (Though not to the same degree that the PSP is longer.) I don't think any of those are going to make the devices uncomfortable to play with or store as much as weight, though. An inch more length is shruggable, but for people used to the weight of a GBA, these things will stand out--they're almost twice as heavy!
Now the PSP will be a LOT bigger if people worry about screen damage, though; the DS can clamshell, but the PSP will require a carrying case of its own, which will add to all its dimensions. (Though I rather imagine people will use a case for the DS as well. Except when left out on a table, everyone I know uses a miniature carrying case with their GBA's.)
PSP dimensions are 74mm by 170mm by 24mm.
DS (when folded) is 85mm by 149mm by 29mm.
(Yes, I'm rounding to the nearest mm.)
PSP is longer, and the DS is wider and thicker. (Though not to the same degree that the PSP is longer.) I don't think any of those are going to make the devices uncomfortable to play with or store as much as weight, though. An inch more length is shruggable, but for people used to the weight of a GBA, these things will stand out--they're almost twice as heavy!
Now the PSP will be a LOT bigger if people worry about screen damage, though; the DS can clamshell, but the PSP will require a carrying case of its own, which will add to all its dimensions. (Though I rather imagine people will use a case for the DS as well. Except when left out on a table, everyone I know uses a miniature carrying case with their GBA's.)
What? Who? Where?
How on earth would I make a judgement call on which dimension "everyone" would find most important to make a "quite a bit" call on EITHER of them? That's why I say it's a trade-off: length can be deterring to some, while others don't like a "bulky wallet" while others might want a case on one device and not another, while others...
All I know is both are going to be much worse than using a gamepad to play, and both are going to be a lot more disconcerting to carry around than a GBA.
How on earth would I make a judgement call on which dimension "everyone" would find most important to make a "quite a bit" call on EITHER of them? That's why I say it's a trade-off: length can be deterring to some, while others don't like a "bulky wallet" while others might want a case on one device and not another, while others...
All I know is both are going to be much worse than using a gamepad to play, and both are going to be a lot more disconcerting to carry around than a GBA.
cthellis42 said:What? Who? Where?
How on earth would I make a judgement call on which dimension "everyone" would find most important to make a "quite a bit" call on EITHER of them? That's why I say it's a trade-off: length can be deterring to some, while others don't like a "bulky wallet" while others might want a case on one device and not another, while others...
All I know is both are going to be much worse than using a gamepad to play, and both are going to be a lot more disconcerting to carry around than a GBA.
Sorry, my "uh" wasn't in response to you so much as it was, "Hmm, if those dimensions are correct then the PSP is actually smaller than the DS!" The judgement call is going to be made by Nintendo fans claiming that one dimension is more important than another (subjective call) and until then, the PSP is the smaller one which is the objective truth.
jvd said:
Yes but I would carry it in a case just as I've carried both my GBA & GBA-SP (which applies to many people as cthellis42 has pointed out)
